WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist, writer, public speaker and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE.

Sir John Mills Is Dead

Published April 23, 2005 by Warren Ellis

According to the BBC, Sir John Mills has died aged 93.

I saw him in a restaurant a couple of years ago. He smiled and nodded to everyone as he moved through the place (very slowly) — because people didn’t turn and stare at John Mills, they turned and smiled — his hair a long white mane, and sat down with Liza Minelli and David Gest, who proceeded to chainsmoke all over the guy for the next hour.

The person I was with is quite well known in British TV. And he did a complete fanboy. Because, you know, that was John Mills.